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Pregnancies among adolescents aged 10 to 17 have “significantly dropped” by 10 percent from 2019 to 2020, the Commission on Population and Development said yesterday.
Erlyn, 18, stopped going to school after the death of her asthmatic brother in 2019. Her friend Daisy, now 16, lost her mother in 2017, the cause of death unclear as the poverty-stricken family had no cash for medical tests; they still blame witchcraft for their loss. Devastated and needing money, Erlyn began working as a masseuse where she met...
OVER 150,000 more Filipinos died last year compared to the whole of 2020, leading to the highest mortality rate in 63 years, according to the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom). Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed there were 768,504 deaths registered across the Philippines in the January to…
THE lockdowns imposed by the government to prevent the spread of Covid-19 also reduced the number of teen pregnancies nationwide, according to the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom). Popcom Executive Director Juan Antonio A. Perez III said the data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed births among adolescent…
While there were 23,855 less births from 2019 to 2020, more than 157,000 women and girls under 20 still give birth in 2020